Scobleizer touts WebBrain, an open-source self-hostable AI browser agent for Chrome, Firefox and Edge
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-12
Robert Scoble says Claude's Chrome agent is great for work but falls short in three ways: no local models, no Web GPU support, and no open source. He highlights WebBrain, an alternative built by Emre Sokullu.
WebBrain is a free, open-source browser extension bringing AI agent capabilities to Chrome, Firefox, and Edge: reading pages, extracting data, and automating web tasks, with your choice of LLM and self-hosting support. Demos show it filling nine fields of a tax form from memory and pausing before submit, answering questions about a local article, and inspecting DevTools CSS to propose a fix — combining local models with browser automation.
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